Right Sized

On the brink of May 2017, I am continuing to share my experience with spiritual principals learned and incorporated into my life as the result of following the program of recovery from alcoholism. The 12 steps in Alcoholics Anonymous. Today we’re at step seven, “Humbly asked Him, to remove our shortcomings.” The principle behind this one is Humility.

Willingness

“If you want what we have and are willing to go to any lengths to get it.” Then you are ready to take certain steps. From How it works. Here we/I are/am at step 6 Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. So I have identified and shared my less than savory aspects of

How does that lead to Integrity?

Welcome, if you’ve not been following along on our trip, investigating the spiritual principles behind working the steps found in the 12 Steps, primarily from the book Alcoholics Anonymous So here we are at Step 5 Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs. I am not going to talk

Honesty

Continuing my endeavor into principles that I somehow failed to integrate as I grew up. If any have any questions about that, just start from my first post and that should explain a lot. My guess though is that most get it. So I’ve subjected myself to enough emotional anguish and despair that I have

The Seeker

I’ve looked under chairs I’ve looked under tables I’ve tried to find the key To fifty million fables chorus: They call me The Seeker I’ve been searching low and high I won’t get to get what I’m after Till the day I die I asked Bobby Dylan I asked The Beatles I asked Timmothy Leary

Heaven or Hell

The place where mystics dwell where artists and poets know so well The truth incomprehensible Reality unfathomable is it heaven or is it Hell  

When you can’t look on the bright side, I’ll sit with you in the dark -Alice in Wonderland

This week a theme has been percolating within me since my last post and the one before that. Things that I’ve read, things I have been thinking about, I know that is a dangerous endeavor, given my thinking problem. I have uncovered something that seems universal.  There is no way I can be of any help if

I don’t have a clue.

I am fascinated with the authority with which many, write, advising the masses of how it is and how it should be. I have come to the conclusion that, in the words of Lao Tzu “Those who know don’t talk. Those who talk don’t know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your

I should know better

Smothered with doubt of what shall come what morbid value can I find,  wallowing in my fear. It’s grip is firm and relentless There must be a sick reward in being trapped there Do I miss that misery? I know better, though, that is not where I belong I am not bound there, for I

This is Real

scrambling around confused and bewildered this is only temporary, the unseen is where if only I can continue to be here it’s over in a flash and we’ll all be where real is Stars Race Across the Sky